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It's , depending of which segments and paradigms of the system we speak of , honestly both a simulation and a prison. However it's not a simulation in the sense of the well known matrix theory , it's more akin to a simulation conducted in real life and in real time by a scientist or other such person.

And yes, we are comprised of mostly empty space as are the atoms that make us up, and yes atoms could be likened to pixels. I don't quite follow , however , what the empty space has to do with atoms being our pixels and thus us living within a simulation.

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I wonder what kind of scientist would run a simulation as complex and huge as our whole universe! Unless a lot of our observable universe is a background environment, with the simulation being limited to earth.

I put emphasis on the empty space, as to show that what seems solid and real, is, in theory, made almost exclusively of empty space.

I made a parallel comparing atoms to pixels, because pixels are the building blocks of the virtual realities we humans are able to create right now, like games.